#95: Linda Favreau

Linda Favreau – Lyme Ninja

Linda Favreau’s Lyme Journey led her to specialize in nutritional genetic consulting and is passionate about helping others unlock the root cause behind their acute and chronic illnesses.

Linda founded ‘Nutrition and Your Genes’ to help communicate her research to others in the areas of epigenetics and nutrition; better known as nutrigenomics. She believes in the importance of epigenetics and takes a functional medicine approach with her clients.

Meet Other Lyme Ninja’s

Some of my favorite interviews are with people just like you who are figuring out how to navigate life with Lyme. The wisdom, grace and humor that people display is why I call them Lyme Ninjas. They have developed extraordinary skills and experience and are always willing to share what they have learned. Lyme disease can be a harsh teacher, but it also can uncover the best in people. I love listening and I know you will too.

Paula & Angele first created the Midcoast Lyme Disease Support group - and later the conference as a way to empower and educate their local community about lyme disease - and as a way to bring national expertise to their local community.

M.M. Drymon, PhD is an historian and writer who lives on the coast of Maine. With an extensive background as a museum educator and curator,she has interests in the Landscape Change, History of Witches, Scotch-Irish culture and historic foodways.

Craig Emmerich graduated in Electrical Engineering and has always had a systems approach to his work. He followed his wife Maria into the nutrition field and has since dedicated his time researching and looking at nutrition and biology from a systems perspective.

Jared was ill for several years but found a turning point when he finally faced the reality of Lyme disease and took responsibility for his health. He took a step back from medical treatment to focus on the mental and emotional roadblocks that were preventing him from getting healthy.

Aaron was actually inspired by the Lyme Ninja Radio podcast, and has made his own called Lyme Voice. Dedicated to those who are suffering and living with Lyme Disease, they explore the often complex social and emotional aspects of Lyme that impact households across the country.

Mytrae Meliana is a Soul purpose coach, women's workshop leader, spiritual teacher, and holistic psychotherapist. Mytrae's spiritual path, which she's had for most of her life, has wound through Integral Yoga, Tantra, mysticism, and metaphysics. She was miraculously healed of Lyme Disease on her first visit to John of God, a spiritual healer in Brazil.

Susan Luschas, PhD, is an MIT-trained scientist and engineer. Her eldest daughter was bitten by a tick. They went to a doctor, who told them because it had been imbedded for less that 24 hours she didn’t have lyme disease.

Susan was born in Pennsylvania, where she graduated from college with a BA in English. In 2012 she was diagnosed with late-stage Lyme Disease after being sick with little explanation for nearly 15 years. After being in remission for nearly a year, Susan relapsed in 2015. Her new book, The Last Letter is closely based on her own struggles with Lyme Disease.

Violet, Piper, Jennifer and Claire are all in 7th grade, and are girl scout cadets on Long Island. They noticed the large amount of Lyme Disease cases in their community, among adults, relatives, and school aged kids, and decided as part of their Cadet Silver Star Project to raise Quail chicks to release in their area to combat the tick population in their area.

After suffering with Chronic Fatigue and Lyme Disease for 12 years Rebecca Cotterall found nutrition to be hugely beneficial on her journey of recovery. She is a fully qualified Nutritional Therapist practicing in the North West of England, based in Chorley in Lancashire.

Mackay Rippey, LAc trained to become an acupuncturist at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute and graduated with a master’s degree in 1992. As a five-element acupuncturist he is carefully trained to understand the laws of nature, to diagnose in accordance with those laws and to work therapeutically to restore balance and harmony. About 4 years a ago he realized that there were not many resources for the increasing number of people with lyme disease in his local community, and started lyme ninja radio as a way to learn more about lyme disease and provide other people with

Robin Shirley, CHHC, is the Founding President of Take Back Your Health Int’l, a company that hosts internationally attended health conferences and retreats across the U.S. She speaks, consults and writes about The Take Back Your Health Lifestyle and how to reduce the symptoms of chronic illness.

Erin Murphy became symptomatic in highschool with fatigue, depression, and anxiety. When she attended college she studied psychology and then neuroscience in an attempt to understand what was happening to her.

Katina is a frequent guest on Lyme ninja radio. She is a graduate of Duke University and The Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing. She is a classical homeopath and author of several books on Lyme Disease.

Connie became passionate about medicine and healing as a result of her decade-long battle with Lyme disease, which led her on a quest to find better answers for herself and others, since the conventional medical community had failed to provide her and others she knew with real solutions for Lyme disease.

Tony Silva and Frances Martinez are a couple that loves the arts, film, photography, beauty, and the truth. They want to raise awareness about this horrible disease, but we also want the world to truly UNDERSTAND what it is like to have it and be in the middle of its madness.

Sarah McNamara worked in Boston as a residency coordinator when she started having symptoms, she was diagnosed with POTS while she was in Boston but her health continued to deteriorate. It took three years before she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. She has returned to her career in the medical field and also works as a patient advocate for people with Lyme disease.